Dear Dusan and Ingo,
I meant disklabel's fs type, not fdisk's partition type; Disklabel filesystem type is different altogether from fdisk partition type, isn't it? And, the disklabel filesystem type is requested as a string (unlike the fdisk partition type which is an 8-bit unsigned integer typically entered in hex) and hence you need to know which options are available: # *disklabel -E wd0* > *a a* offset: [0] size: [12345] FS type: [4.2BSD] *?* Filesystem type (usually 4.2BSD or swap) FS type: [4.2BSD] *help* Unrecognized filesystem type 'help', treating as 'unknown' And "e a" asks nothing about fs type. What do you say? Mikael 2015-10-05 15:03 GMT+08:00 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>: > Hi Mikael, > > Mikael wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:44:36PM +0800: > > > Hi, > > > > Where can I see a complete list of disklabel fs types? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type > > But note that such a list can never be authoritative, never complete, > and by definition of the concept, almost all of it is irrelevant > for no matter which task. > > It may seem highly unusual that *I* am sending people to the > web for documentation. However, there is a reason in this > particular case. > > > It must be documented somewhere, > > No, there is no need to. > > 1) It is in no way related to OpenBSD. So why should OpenBSD > document it? All that is relevant to OpenBSD is A6, and > that is documented in fdisk(8), where it belongs. > > 2) We do want our documentation to be correct and complete, > but we also want it to be concise, so we don't include > irrelevant information. > > 3) OpenBSD does support multibooting, though we clearly > discourage it for most use cases. So you may have a need > to know another partition type ID. But that's a property > of your *other* system, so you should look it up in the > documentation of your other system. > > > but I can't find it neither in the > > "disklabel" tool itself, nor in its man pages. > > It has nothing to do with disklabel(8), it's a property of the > machine-dependent so called "master boot record". > > > In disklabel's "a" command, > > I guess you are talking about fdisk(8) -e. > > > typing "?" is interpreted as invalid input, and > > typing "help" is interpreted as choosing the fs type "unknown". > > I don't know which version of OpenBSD or which snapshot you > are using, and right now, i don't have the time or hardware > to figure out whether there was or is a bug of that kind. > Maybe someone else can answer this part. > > Yours, > Ingo
